122 IX. FUMARIACEiE. 



form, stigmas 2 minute or dilated ; ovules 2 or more, on 2 parietal placentas. 

 Capmle ovoid oblong elliptic or linear, valves 2 membranous leaving the 

 seed-bearing placentas attached to the style. Seedi smaU, beaked, aril 

 fleshy or 0.— Distbib. Species about 70, temp. European and Asiatic, with 

 a few N. American and Cape species. 



Sect. I. Erect leafy branched fibrous-rooted herbs. Capsule narrow 

 linear. Seeds 1-seriate. 



1: C. opbiocarpa, E. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 259 ; leaves 2-pinnatisect, 

 racemes lax many-flowered terminal and leaf -opposed, posticous petal equal- 

 ling or exceeding the broad obtuse spur tip flat obcordate, anticous linear 

 concave, capsule tortuous. 



Moist valleys of the SiKKiM-HiMALATA, alt. 9000 ft., -ff./. 



Stem 2-3 ft., slender, branched. Leaves 4-8 in., glaucous beneath, pinnae 1-2. in., 

 pinnules obovate-oblong, segments obtuse, mucvonate, glaucous beneath. ^ Flowers 

 yellow; bracts minute, subulate, entire. /Sepofo orbicular, fimbiiafe. Posticous petA 

 curved ; lateral united below the tip. Style slender, equalling the many-ovuled ovary. 

 Capsule 1 in. Seeds small, black, shining, punctate ; funiole thickened. 



2. C. flaccida, E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 260; tall, leaves 3-4- pinnatisectj 

 racemes terminal and axillary many-flowered, posticous petal twice as long 

 as the curved conical spur, tip spathulate 2-lobed, pod straight. 



Moist valleys of the Sikkim-Himalaya, alt. 11-12,000 ft., H.f. 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout, erect, branched. Leaves 6-12 in., membranous ; pinnse 2 in. ; 

 pinnules sjihsessile, ovate or orbicular, obtuse, not glaucous beneath ; lobes rounded, 

 apicalate. Flowers 4-| in. long, brown -purple ; racemes 2-6 in. ; lower bracts leafy, 

 median out or lobed, upper narrow. Sepals ovate, acute, toothed. Posticous petal 

 plano-convex, tip rounded winged. Style slender, twice as long as the linear ovary. 

 " 1 1-1 j in., linear. 



3. C. leptocarpa, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 260 ; diffuse, leaves 2-ternately 

 pinnatisect, racemes long-peduncled 2-7-flowered leaf-opposed^ posticous 

 petal concave acuminate much shorter than the slender curved spur, pod 

 erect straight torulose. 



Eastern Himalaya, in Bbotan^ Griffith ; Sikkim, alt. 8000 ft., S. /. 



Stem 6-12 in., weak, branched, decumbent. Leaves 3-6 in., long-petioled, mem- 

 branous, segments broadly obovate, deeply cut, lobes rounded, glaucous or not beneath.. 

 Flowers 1-lJ in. long, dull purple ; bracts obovate or oblong-cuneate, cut. Sepals 

 minute, oblong, fimbriate. Posticous petal concave, narrow oblong, tip winged; 

 anticous spathulate, acuminate. Style sender, half as long as the linear ovary. Cap- 

 sule l-lj in., narrow linear. Seeds 1-seriate, black, shining, smooth; aril broad, 

 2-lobed. 



Sect. II. Root fibrous. Pod short, elliptic obovate lanceolate or subglo- 

 bose. Seeds 2-seriate. 



* Root bulbous, or rootstock elongate, stem simple. Radical leaves few 

 or ; cauline opposite alternate or whorled. Racemes undivided. 



, 4. C. ruteefolia, Sibth. Flor. Grasc. t. 667 ; leaves opposite or whorled 

 2-3-temately cut, raceme erect 6-12-flowered, bracts entire, outer petals not 

 keeled equalling or shorter than the inflated obtuse spur. E. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 262. C. diphylla, Wall. Cat. 1430 ; Tent. Fl. Nep. 54. C. pauciflora, Edgew. 

 in Tram. Linn. Soc, xx. 30. C. longipes, Dm. Prodr, 198 («oi of DC), 



